Thursday, September 8, 2016

Op-ed: ‘C’ is for Confidential, Crooked, and Concussion

“Clinton never
deleted, nor did she instruct anyone to delete, her email to avoid complying
with the Federal Records Act, [the Freedom of Information Act], or State or FBI
requests for information.”

- One notation
in the F.B.I.’s recently released 58-pages of notes regarding Hillary’ deleted
emails

And so the woman who has hidden her emails from the public for six years…32,000 emails to be exact…32,000 she called “boring” emails she and her staff
deleted, now has a red face as 17,448 of those emails have been recovered by
the F.B.I., including work related emails that were supposed to be but were
never turned over to the Department of State. And we also just found out that when
she was Secretary of State, Hillary had in her possession 13 separate cell phones,
including 11 ‘smart phones’ linked to two different phone numbers and that
eight of those phones were used to communicate with others via her private…”I didn’t know it was wrong to have one”…home
computer server.

And
this self-proclaimed anything but computer and techno savvy
person…yet another lie for why have 11 'smart phones' unless you knew
how to use them…had the audacity to claim a whopping 39 times when
interviewed by the F.B.I. that she could not “recall”
certain things the FBI asked her about (that's in addition to the 327
times her aides and others interviewed could not remember or recall
events either) as well as claiming
that she did not know that the letter ‘C’
meant confidential…confidential and obviously classified as the two do
go
hand-in-hand when dealing with someone in her high-up in the
governmental peeking
order position.

And yet Hillary and her cohorts in crime…yes crime…ignore
the fact that in today's political whelm ‘A’ is taken to mean aiding and
abetting, ‘B’
is taken to mean bribe, and ‘C’ actually does mean confidential…as in
'Top
Secret' as per Department of Defense Directive 5200.01. But
Hillary, a 2-term Senator and a woman who has spent her entire adult
life in politics and
who had countless security briefings and training sessions on classified
information while a senator including during the six years she spent on
the Armed Services Committee...suddenly and oh so conveniently says she
did not have any such briefings
or if she did have them she forgot that she did because let’s not forget
that in
Hillary Clinton’s world ‘C’ also means concussion.

Concussion…something we’ve suspected for a long time. In
fact, ever since she fell (drunk perhaps) in her private bathroom and went
splat…banging her head on the toilet…concussion personified complete with the
required for effect bump on her head…this has been something Hillary has denied
time and again. But recently she a had a slip of the tongue and admitted to not
only having had a concussion but to now...years after the fact...having ‘memory lapses’ because of said
concussion. And these ‘memory lapses’ just oh so conveniently happened to kick
in this past July when she was being interviewed by the F.B.I. regarding her
missing “boring” emails.

And during said F.B.I. interview some of Hillary’s ‘memory lapses’
included her not remembering receiving emails she thought should not be on an
unclassified system… meaning that if she knew about an unclassified system she
surely knew about a classified one…yet she claimed that she did not know the
difference between the government’s classifications of 'Top Secret,' 'Secret,' and
'Confidential'…another obvious lie.

In fact, Hillary…who used her private
unsecured email server to send at least 22 specific emails that included
information classified as ‘Top Secret’ as well as eight ‘Top Secret’ chains, 36
containing ‘Secret’ information and eight more that were 'Confidential' with another
2,000 that were classified ‘Confidential' later in the game…had the audacity to
tell the F.B.I. that she “did not pay
attention to the ‘level’ of classification and took all classified information
seriously.” Oh really, she cannot have it both ways…she either knew about
the levels of classification or she did not, but to be honest no one in the
position of U.S. Secretary of State can, with a straight face, seriously claim
they did not know about said levels and have it be believable.

Hillary damn well knew about those levels when the emails
were sent but the true question should be just who were they sent to…something
we have yet to discover.

And so Hillary’s ‘memory lapses’ continued on when asked
about conversations regarding the creation of the clintonemail.com domain, Bryan
Pagaliano’s upgrading of said home server, or that she even contacting
Pagaliano for technical support for her email account… all quite unbelievable as
he was a guest in her Chappaqua, New York home, and on many occasions to boot.

And also forgotten was her not recalling whether she received
any actual guidance from the Department of State regarding generalized email
policies outlined in the Foreign Affairs Manual or about a specific agenda for
deleting or not deleting emails from her account while in her official capacity
as Secretary of State. Also including in this guidance would be instructions about
how to secure personal email accounts sent to employees and what to do about any
others having an account on clintonemail.com, that is besides her BFF and muslim
advisor Huma Abedin. And Hillary also did not "recall”… her word not mine…her top foreign policy advisor Jacob Sullivan
using his private Google email account for official Department of State business.

Amnesia on demand I call it…amnesia as the scapegoat…and
done with that famous Hillary wink, nod, and a cough...and a now suddenly and
oh so conveniently admitted to concussion being the cause of it all.

"The FBI
identified three email chains, encompassing eight individual email exchanges to
or from Clinton's personal email accounts, which contained at least one paragraph
marked '(C),' a marking ostensibly indicating the presence of information
classified at the CONFIDENTIAL level."

- Another notation in the F.B.I.’s 58-pages of notes

And all I can do is deeply sigh for the truth is that Hillary
Clinton was very well aware that as Secretary of State her emails would most
assuredly contain classified information. In fact one specific email chain recovered
did contain information that was highly classified yet Hillary knowingly chose to "remove it from its proper place of
custody"…this being on an official government server...a felony under US Code 793 f...and had
it "retained at an unauthorized
location"…this being her private home server which is a misdemeanor
under US Code 1924 a. And this proves it was no an accident that the information
was removed…“gross negligence” F.B.I.
Director James Comey called it…but it was a conscious and willfully intentional
act to remove classified information from its rightful and "proper place of custody."

And this means, in no uncertain terms, that Hillary should
have been prosecuted under the above stated statutes and would have been if she
was not a Clinton. And that coupled with her theatrically well-played boo-boo that
caused a concussion which led to her supposedly not being able to “recall”
her actions let alone remember or know what the letter ‘C’ means
...translates in her mind into a reality that she has once again not
only pulled 'pulled the wool' over 'We the People's' eyes but that she
has gotten away with still more of her, I believe, traitorous actions…or
has she.

But before I continue, let's discuss a few important facts about
the logistics of government emails…sort of a ‘government emails 101’ civics lesson that even those
new to government and those of us who have been following ‘emailgate’ closely know.
Fact one: the Federal Records Act requires that all government agencies hold onto all official
communications, including all work-related emails, and government employees
cannot destroy or remove relevant records. Fact two: the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) regulations dictate exactly how records should be
created and maintained stressing that materials must be maintained "by the
agency," that they should be "readily found," and that the
records must "make possible a proper scrutiny by the Congress." Fact
three: Section 1924 of Title 18 relates to deletion and retention of classified
documents and stresses that "knowingly" removing or housing classified
information at an "unauthorized location" is subject to a fine or a
year in prison.

Fact four: the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was designed
to "improve public access to agency records and information." Fact
five: government emails containing so-called “sensitive” information have the
letter ‘C’ at the top of the message received and/or in the subject line. And
lastly fact six: government emails that have a ‘C’ in parentheses in the body
means that a specific paragraph is classified. This is known as ‘portion
marking’ and in no way does it change the reality that the document in question
is indeed classified.

And so the woman who claims to know government operations
inside and out, and who had previously told the F.B.I. that she understood that
an email labeled with a ‘C’ was classified but that she did not know what the
symbol meant when appearing in the body of an email, has now on numerous
occasions claimed that many of the emails in question had been “retroactively classified or up-classified”…as in the information
was not classified when it was emailed to her but is now…which is really something
quite hard to believe as most people believe that the majority of deleted emails
pertain to the happenings at Benghazi and its aftermath.

And Hillary’s story about her thinking that the letter ‘C’…which
appeared in parentheses before certain paragraphs of her Department of State emails…was
a direction to organize paragraphs in alphabetical order is beyond a doubt the
stuff of fairy tales for why would anyone alphabetize paragraphs…content yes but
actual paragraphs no...as doing so makes no sense. And you would think that logic
alone would dictate that if Hillary by some outside chance did not get what the
‘C’ meant before she read some of the so-marked emails, it would be expected that
she would have made the association from the very context of said emails.

Like I said, basic facts but basics facts ignored as Hillary
Clinton plays yet another infamous game of word semantics…a game she, Hillary Clinton,
and not he F.B.I. is controlling for the F.B.I. and especially its Director
James Comey is indeed complicit in her dubious actions.

Complicit indeed for not only did Comey…the very man who
said that some of Hillary’s emails “bore
markings indicating the presence of classified information”…buy into
Hillary’s concussion story complete with its memory loss nonsense, but he chose
not to seek criminal charges against her as well. And he did so even after
laying out more than enough evidence of serious security breaches that can be
summed up in his words that Hillary was “extremely
careless in her handling of very sensitive, highly classified information”
But the simple truth is that Comey rushed to decision before anyone had
time to
digest what Hillary had said during the 3-1/2 hour F.B.I. interview or
to see the
actual notes from said interview…notes that took almost two months to
release
when said notes could have been easily transcribed in a day or two.
Also, remember that Comey’s decision came a bit too close for comfort to
the infamous Loretta Lynch’s
supposedly impromptu meeting with Billy-Boy only a week before.

And so while ‘emailgate’…yet another ‘gate’ in Hillary’s
ever expanding list of ‘gates’…still rightfully hoovers over her
head…and as
Republicans try to get her indicted on something…on anything…especially
Benghazi…before the November 8th election…(and now as I write this new
information is starting to surface that evidence might have been deleted
while it was under subpoena and questions are being asked as to why
Hillary's attorneys, the very persons who sorted through her emails,
were handling classified information when they did not have proper
security clearance to do so)...the fact is that when this very same
agency recommends charges be brought against others facing similar
accusations…General
David Petraeus comes to mind…but not against her even with more
incriminating
evidence surfacing almost daily…you just know that Hillary Clinton and
her
in-name-only husband Billy-Boy are truly above the law.

Equal justice in America is now officially dead…and let the
F.B.I. put that in their damn notes for all the good their notes did them or us…case
closed.